Malick Sidibé is a photographer known for his black-and-white images chronicling the exuberant lives and culture, often of youth, in his native Bamako, Mali in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. Sidibé’s work documents a transitional moment as Mali gained its independence and transformed from a French colony steeped in tradition to a more modern independent country looking toward the West. He captured candid images in the streets, nightclubs, and sporting events and ran a formal portrait studio.

We love the way Jeffrey Milstein’s photographs of cities make strange out of what seems like ordinary city landscapes. Milstein’s photos of Los Angeles and New York choose frames that call the extraordinary out in urban planning, landscape design, and simply focus on the geometry of intersecting architectures. His series on cruise ships documents the luxury transportation with an aesthetic frankness. Milstein studied architecture at Berkeley and currently works out of New York.

Our friend Grant Monahan will showing a great new series of photos he took in Montauk with a group of photos by Colo Barash taken in Wellfleet, Mass at Outeast Gallery in Montauk from August 1—15, 2015. Go check it out if you happen to be doing a proper NYC summer getaway.

Consistently one of our favorite music video directors, Nabil's latest video for Foals was created using GoPro cameras and is best viewed in the Youtube App on your phone. All you have to do is stand in on place and watch the video while moving your phone around... it's trippy.

We are excited to once again be part of Nuart 2015 this year, not only as as media sponsor, but a part of the great lecture program the Norwegian festival puts on each year. From September 3—5, 2015, the festival happens around Stavanger with talks and street pieces across the city, and the exhibition itself runs 6 September - 11 October, 2015. Even better, Nuart is celebrating its 15th anniversary, "Alongside the recurrent theme of Situationism, this year’s festival will explore notions of play and the ludic tendencies within street art and urban culture. . . "

Our good friend Ferris Plock is taking the SF vibes and headed up north to Portland for a pizza party. In fact, it is his own "Personal Pizza Party" at One Grand Gallery in Portland with an array of different pizza art, "from the Chuck-shod and googly-eyed, to the monster truck-driving, cannibalistic slices. They promise to confuse, entertain, and even make you a little hungry." The Personal Pizza Party starts Friday August 7th, 2015 at 7pm.

Foam proudly presents The Nine and The Ninety Nine, an exhibition of the American photographer Katy Grannan (1969, USA), comprising her two newest series which are shown here for the first time outside the United States. Grannan is renowned for her remarkable and intimate portraits of strangers, most of whom are somehow living on the fringes of society.

Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report.